The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-03-30
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

President Fitzgerald of the Irish
National League in America has issued long
address calling upon the Irish people to rally
once more to the support of the cause of Irish
nationality and asking the American people
and the American press TO lend the Irish their
moral support by denouncing the proposal of
the British Government to re-enact coercive
legislation In his address Mr.. Ftzg gerald says:
There is no law, human or divine that COM
pels n nation to pnssively accept annihilation,
and il these British Tories ara permitted To
heap additional wrongs on the Irish people
despair will nerve the Irish To active resistance
and wild retaliation. The very deer turn
their pursuers when driven TO bay, and il
nothing Will satisfy the British Government
but the de ,truction of the Irish people Ireland
VIII be justified before God aud man in selling
her life ut the heaviest price she can obtain
and in using every weapon the ingenuity OF
man can place within her reach.
The Hon. Samuel Ii. Treat, Judge of
the Unitel Safes District Court for the South
ern District of Illinois, died last week at
Springfield, Ill, aged rs He had for some
years suffered with Bright's disease, and his
death was the result of complications growing
out OF that disease. He had been confined to
his room but few days.
Judge Treat was born in Otsego County, New
York. III 1872, and was admitted to the bar in
that State. In 1884 he came to Illinois, and set
tied in Springfield. He formed u law partner
ship with George Forquer, Il half-brother OF
Thomas Ford, who became Governor of the
torney General of Illinois during the term
OF Governor Edwards and was subse-
quently Register of the Lard Office at Spring
field. The death OF Mr.. Forquer left Judge
Treat in sole possession OF good law prac-
tce. In l 80 state Judicial Circuit
was formed ana stephen T. Logan was put on
the bench. After serving about three months
he resigned, and Judge Treat was appointed by
Gov. CIrlin u fill the vacancy. He was after
ward elected to the same bench, serving till 1871,
when he transferred to the Supreme bench
of the state, serving continuously until March3 3,
1855 when, the old United States District OF Illi
nois having been divided into the Northern and
Southern Districts, he appointed Judge OF
the Southern District by President Pierce.
James Kearney, a New York attor-
ney, Is missing, and so is about sSO,0OO in
cash belonging to the firm with which he was
connected.
The Government tried dynamite
gun in New York, and it threw conceal shell,
weighing l5J pounds, over "a miles.
Gambling implements to the value
of 5000 were, on Saturday, burnsl by the
New York polio, authorities
Ira Shafer, the counsel for Alderman
Cieary of New York, who made such all rate
and inconsiderate TRADE against the press, has
made a qualified apology for the same to John
A. Greene President OF the Press Club Of New
York, who had seat him very pointed remon-
STRANGE on the subject
A mass meeting of commercial tray
elers held at the Palmer House in Chicago,
decided to adopt no aggressive or boycotting
tactics toward the railroads on the mileage
ticket and baggage question, but appointed
committee to cooperate with the sim lar COM
mittee of the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association in bringing their mutual griev
ances before the railroad managers.
The strike of the /, 900 silkdyers at
Paterson, ~ j., has ended, and the men have
resumed work on the terms dictated by the
bosses.
The President has appointed James
f. Benedict t. be Collector of LITERAL Rev,-
nue. for the District of Colorado.
The new extradition treaty between
Great Britain and the United States has been
submitted by President Cleveland to the SEN
ate. 1t calls for extradition for such crimes
as manslaughter, burglary, ENLIGHTENMENT or
larceny of the value of $50 or upward, and
malicious injury to property, but makes a de-
cided exemption in favor of merely political
offenders
New York telegram: "James CT.
Blaino's Western trip is entirely for business
and recreation He will visit his daughter,
Mrs. Lieut. Col Coppinger, at Fort Wichita,
l. T., and will put in day at least in Chicago !"
Veterans of the Union and Confed-
crate armies in Virginia are contributing lib
orally toward the erection of monument to
Gen John Sedgwick killed near Spottsylvania.